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I like the Fox News headline for this dress thing:

Woman asks about dress color, Internet loses collective mind

Looks like it's literally 50/50 on what people see.

I can see it both ways.

sailingfun

02-27-2015 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Scoop (Post 1833287)

NYC 73N B Just issued a Pilot GS number 9!!!!! He is a lineholder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope he is volunteering to buy the Beer.

Scoop :)

Looks like all his trips were bought for training. He is looking at a 200 hour plus month. Smart man!

Check Essential

02-27-2015 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Scoop (Post 1833287)

NYC 73N B Just issued a Pilot GS number 9!!!!! He is a lineholder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope he is volunteering to buy the Beer.

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1833289)

:confused:

How does a regular pilot have room on their schedule to do 9 GSs and have all of them above the trigger?

Or are 73 trips just that productive that you have room for 9 day trips or something?

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Originally Posted by sailingfun (Post 1833313)

Looks like all his trips were bought for training. He is looking at a 200 hour plus month. Smart man!

Yup. Curiosity got the better of me so I went and looked.
He did it by buddy bidding a Line Check Airman.
Got all his trips bought plus the greenslips are indeed all green.
Essentially triple pay for the whole month.

KA-CHING !!

iaflyer

02-27-2015 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Check Essential (Post 1833321)

#5 in his category. Nice!

Scoop

02-27-2015 09:47 AM

Two quick bidding questions:

1. If young are scheduled for AE training and you awarded the same aircraft at another base on a subsequent AE I assume you will stick with your initial training and just lateral over - sound right?

2. Since AEs are strictly seniority based what are the advantages of checking the box that says yes I am willing to liquidate my vacation?

Thanks Scoop

Hawaii50

02-27-2015 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1833284)

I think the west coast bases get too much love and attention. More flying should be in atlanta.
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It's going to be huge! LAX will be so big and we're all going to live in Orange Tree City just southwest of Torrance where all the kids drive ski boats or surf to school and I hear the training center is moving to the old Western parking structure on Century Blvd.

gloopy

02-27-2015 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Timbo (Post 1833216)

Buzz, you've got to be lovin' this bid! And rumors are, 777 LAX base this summer, so stand by for more West Coast luvin!

The 777 LAX base isn't the greatest of news though because it sounds like its reallocation and not growth. Couple that with a very significant reduction in block hours from the vanishing DH's and that's a lot of time (and some jobs) taken out of the system. There's probably some existing 777 pilots that live in SoCal and get paid to commute, or better: paid to commute while staying at home. A lot of that is going away with this mini base if/when it happens.

I guess it was inevitable though, and hopefully the churn created with more new categories makes up for the loss of block hours, at least for a little while.

MikeF16

02-27-2015 10:43 AM

When using the 'count pilots holding a preference for a specific category' function on icrew, will it count pilots who are already in that category but just didn't change their bid?

scambo1

02-27-2015 10:54 AM

[QUOTE=forgot to bid;1833284]I think the west coast bases get too much love and attention. More flying should be in atlanta.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

THIS!!! ALPA sucks

:eek::D

forgot to bid

02-27-2015 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Check Essential (Post 1833321)

Like at worst its a 180 hour month. Could be easily close to 300.

just a beautiful thing really.

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